Skinning a live person, even a bound one, was a delicate sort of operation. A slip of the hand could cut too deep, scoring the muscle or worse. Farfarello had considerable experience with this particular art, however, so he was able to very, very carefully expose the muscles of Caim's abdomen, the bloody mess of skin coming away in one contiguous sheet. That was the hardest part, really--any idiot could cut off little bits of skin, but keeping it from tearing apart was much, much trickier.

"Almost the end now." The degree of blood loss Caim was suffering now would cause him to pass out fairly soon--no one lasted very long, when it came to being skinned.